This means cards like the Hauppauge HVR-950 will not work without some additional engineering to create an MPEG encoder sink.

Why?

Because LinuxMCE isn't just MythTV.

There is a legacy AV mode which can be used to display the output of existing AV equipment, such as your cable box, vcr, blu-ray player, etc. And if it is hooked up to a tuner card, it can be streamed around the house. But in order for this to work, our Xine_Player expects a stream it can deal with, either MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 in other words.

Please weigh this into consideration when asking for cards. It is a must.

Major development work is on-going at MythTV to get this fully supported. It does onboard encoding to give MPEG-2 for LMCE. It's a bit pricey right now (~$200+), but of course that will come down with time.

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and while the device is supported by MythTV as of the current SVN, the driver is still _very_ unstable, and Janne over at MythTV is working on getting it debugged and the rest of the features implemented (it's still glitchy when flipping between different resolutions, for example).

If you got an early HD-PVR, firmware upgrades will be needed as well. We'll have to see if we can bundle the firmware with the driver when the driver becomes stable.

I can't imagine that we would only have a couple of tuners that users want to support... Let's get a few more on this list...

This card looks like a good candidate as it does DVB-S2 HDTV, DVB-S, DVB-T, analogue PAL/SECAM cable TV, FM radio reception, plus S-Video, Composite and stereo audio inputs for A/V capture, all in one card!

I pretty much like the Terratec Cards&Sticks.I own the Cinergy DT USB XS Diversity which is a Dual Tuner DVB-T stick and a Terratec 1200 DVB-T.I kind of like the stick as it is a dual tuner, supported in the kernel since 8.10 and starts at 60€ in germany/europe. http://geizhals.at/eu/a192086.html